Encore Question of September 4th, 2004.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

Nirvana

The Knack

10000 Maniacs

Pixies

Black Crowes

Tonight I'm playing with two boards, ROCKET and LITBOX all alone after Mark MARKEE left after the OnBeat round even with me feeding him answers.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...4000/5000...3rd/3...LITBOX and MARKEE co-win round.
..........LITBOX...4500/5000...1st/3.
I decided to split a board so MARKEE wouldn't go too far ahead.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...2nd/3...my two win round.
..........LITBOX...10500/14000...1st/3.
I score 7 right and 2 wrong which was pretty good as I'm still catching up on music news. MARKEE leaves and
signs off his board so I can't keep it running.
JukeBox...ROCKET...15646/20000...2nd/2...my two win round.
...........LITBOX...16146/20000...1st/2.
I score both 2004 MTV video award questions right but they were so mainstream that I didn't need my cut-out
of winners from the newspaper.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...20158/28000...2nd/2...LITBOX wins round.
.........LITBOX...20668/28000...1st/2.
I start the round with two -250s and one for something like 130 so I didn't think I'd make 20000 before the Encore.
I tucked in just over my standard on the last question.

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Now the Encore answers come up. I should know all about the first three groups. Anything, personnel, songs, band history. The other two could be tricky but I know a few things about the Black Crowes.

Encore Question:...This band blasted onto the music scene in 1988 with their album "Surfer Rosa".

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Correct Answer:....4. Pixies

[NTN Extra Fact:...The quartet followed in 1989 with "Doolittle".]

Well just what I thought. Not Nirvana whose early stuff was eventually released but not with that title. The Knack would already have broken up by 1988. 10000 Maniacs? I own their early stuff. Now that's three gone before the answers come back up. Two left. Wait. I own the first two Black Crowes albums on cassette tape when they came out. Great then. Pick the group that I know nothing about!

I'm right and win as LITBOX with 31002. I finish 64th in North America. I earn 3000 Players Plus points for meeting this week's 16000 standard. The bar finishes 1536th in North America with a 12247 average. [NTN moved us up to 284th out of 1662 bars]. My score tonight gives me 9th and 10th on the Hall Of Fame board at this bar displacing one of my good scores from one year ago. Well it gives me a chance to knock off this rather modest score off in the weeks to come.

Other games:...I start the evening with ROCKET at 3,047,000 P+ points and LITBOX at 856,500.
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...4239/15000...2nd/3...500+ points...I'm 6757th in NA...MARKKE wins.
................LITBOX...4215/15000...1st/3...500+ points...I'm 6775th in NA...bar is 1749th...I'm here in time for the last seven questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11217/15000...3rd/3...1000+ points...I'm 695th in NA.
..............LITBOX...11231/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 684th in NA...bar is 1134th in NA.
8:30pm...RetroTVCountdown...ROCKET...14379/15000...1st/3...1000+ points...I'm 5th in Canada.
..............LITBOX...14358/15000...2nd/3...1000+ points...I'm 6th in Canada...bar is 19th in Canada with an 8364 average
This is a rerun of last week's Retro game, all 15 questions in the same order. I guide MARKEE through the game and admit the situation. He comes 15th and helps rank the bar.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...12351/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 689th in NA.
...............LITBOX...12351/15000...2nd/4...1000+ points...I'm 689th in NA...bar is 718th...EDD wins.

Let me out of here so I can go to a soccer tournament in London Ontario tomorrow. The bar has the World Cup of Hockey tonight for the Canada vs Russia game. I'm in the dark about the soccer World Cup qualifying game between Canada and Honduras and would have been upset if I'd seen it.